Pr OHH GoLOSBY Read more about navigating ‘herd progressions in ohn Golsby/s The Saxe Bass Book (Backbeat Books), the Aefinitive guide to faze bass Players and her techniques. Ale check out oh’ io CD with Peter Frohne and Bil Dobbins, Coane [wwngoldsy ce. malt John a ohne@goldsby de. Fin? WOODSHED ou ‘Bai? o7 TAKE SOME ‘GIANT STEPS’ PART TWO LAST TIME, T EXPLORED THE BASICS OF THE abstract and beautiful chord progression that saxo- ous on his Giant ‘Coltrane matrix Iim-V7 clusters and V7 chords to frame key centers that move up or down in major-3ed interval: Uniik American songbook standards and their derivatives, the Coltrane matrix key centers don't move wit regard to the citcl of Sths. This n tinues to explore the tricky progression, phonist John Coltrane made fa Steps album, To summarize, the the conventional j harmony found in th’s column con: Previously, | explained how the Coltrane 4 usetul substitate for simple Hm-V7-1 progressions On my frst CD, Tale ofthe Fingers [Concord J 1993), 1 played the Coltrane matrix in my solo over the changes to Paul Chambers's composition “Tale of Ex. I). To master “Giant Steps,” start slowly with simple patterns (Ex. 2). The beauty of Coltrane's original solo is that he combines a lot of simple melodie frag. ‘ments into complex mosaic of sound. When you hhave the Coltrane matrix in your ears and under your fingers, you can use the pattem to alter standard pro: gressions, or "go outside” a basic harmony. You ean even use the Colizane matsx to ereate an ultra-siek line over the blues (Ex. 3) ‘Most important, get John Col the Fingers ing osring electric over “Giant Steps” on his recording Now [Concord Jaz, 1998], ofthe very cool bowed ver sion from Avery Sharpe on his recording Extended Fam ly [wwwtsabourmusic.com}, Stat slowly with baby steps—and work your way into this classi piece of jazz history. After some solid hours in the blowing "Giant Steps" with the best. ofthe stxes ° need say nc legendary 1960 recording Giant Steps [Adantel; i's ene of the most fnfluental recordings in jazz history. Fora bass perspec tive on this clasic tue, check out John Pastueet play \woowlshed, youl Bir eimai? may i ELmai7Emai7 o7 aie te pintetete, — CHOOL KOS magazine Pon't miss the NEWEST magazine from the publishers of UutarPiayer, eaves, Keyboard, GC), and ‘FRETS eo more oo GOTO hoolofrock.com